Reform of an emergency department and its impact on health care quality and cost-effectiveness;Evaluación del impacto en la calidad asistencial y análisis coste-efectividad de la reforma de un servicio de urgencias de medicina

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 7-11

  Miró, Òscar ^a   Sánchez, Miquel ^a   Mestre, Gabriel ^a   Coll Vinent, Blanca ^a   Bragulat, Ernest ^a   Espinosa, Gerard ^a   Soler, Néstor ^a   Gotsens, Rafael ^a   Millá, José ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Efficiency; Emergency Department; Overcrowding; Quality; Reforms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

EID: 0035832626     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0025-7753(01)71994-x     Document Type: Article

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